Disease hits fish at Pequest Trout Hatchery

5:00 PM,
Sep. 19, 2013

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A bacterial disease believed to be transmitted by ospreys and herons has infected the brood stock population of trout at the state run Pequest Trout Hatchery in Warren County. To stop its spread 25,000 trout will now have to be euthanized.

"We are taking all precautions to contain this disease," Division of Fish and Wildlife Director David Chanda said in a prepared statement. "This will have minimal impacts on the availability of fish to be distributed throughout the state as part of our fall stocking season."

The fall stocking begins Oct. 8. But because of the disease some 1,500 super-sized ...